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IOT in Agricultural Crop Protection and Power
Generation
Anjana M1, Charan Kumar A2, Monisha R3,
Sahana R H4
1, 2, 3, 4
Student,
Department of Electronics and Instrumentation
Engineering,
JSS Academy of Technical Education
Bangalore, India
Abstract—Agriculture is the science and art of growing
plants. Agriculture plays predominant position in the financial
improvement of our country and this is the primary profession
from many years. To extend the efficiency of the yields and to
limit the costs of rural practices we go for smart techniques of
agriculture by using IOT technology. Protection of crop during
rainy season is major challenge for farmers. By incorporating
Greenhouse technology, an environment condition for a crop to
grown will created along the various features like sensor based
totally monitoring, security, crop safety from excessive rain and
automatic roof overlaying facility. Greenhouse is operated in
two modes i.e, automatic mode and manual mode. It makes use
of telegram app for communicating with the cultivators about
various environmental factors continuously. Various sensor
nodes are deployed at special locations in the greenhouse.
Controlling those parameters are through any remote device or
internet services and the operations are completed by means of
interfacing sensors, with microcontroller. Power generation and
supply is usually a massive problem. This project is also
consisting of solar power generation and rainwater harvesting
as technology method is implemented along with crop safety.
Keywords—Greenhouse; agriculture; microcontroller; crop
security
I. INTRODUCTION
Agriculture is the important sector and backbone of our
country. Many of our Indian people depends on agriculture.
About 58%people depends only on agriculture.38%of GDP
of Indian economy contributed by agriculture. It depends on
monsoon and rainfall, so it is still under development.
Adoption of irrigation and scientific methods helps in
improvement of agriculture. Greenhouse, polyhouse kind of
improved and protected method helps to yield more. Even
agriculture is adopted my many people in India, but
production percentage is less. Compare to other countries like
USA, China, Germany and Italy our production level is low,
and we are importing food grains from them.
If we wanted to earn more profit from agriculture, we must
adopt modern farming techniques such as Greenhouse
farming (polyhouse farming), hydroponic farming etc.
Government is also encouraging these types of modern
technologies to increase the yield and provide funds through
different schemes. Central government provide subsidy, loan
for greenhouse, cent polyhouse, shade net house scheme to
encourage modern method of agriculture. The government is
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Mrs. Sowmya M S
Asst. Prof.,
Department of Electronics and Instrumentation
Engineering,
JSS Academy of Technical Education
Bangalore, India
continuously making efforts to develop agriculture sector and
It is one of the fields where government stress a lot and we
have come a long way in agricultural development.
Greenhouse is a structure with walls and roof made up of
transparent material, such as glass or translucent material. In
green house environment plants are grown in a required
regulating climatic condition. These structures may vary in
different structures and sizes including small sheds to large
size like industrial buildings. The greenhouse which is
miniaturized is called as a cold frame. The modern
greenhouses are made up with screening installations,
heating, cooling, lighting, computer to provide required
favorable conditions for plant growth and it also manages the
micro-climate conditions by controlling parameters like air,
temperature, relative humidity, and vapor pressure deficit etc.
In greenhouse the interior part is exposed to sunlight so
that it becomes significantly warmer than the external
temperature suitable for crops to protect it from cold weather
condition. This technique enables the farmer to get increased
growth and productivity. In which they can control the
growing of any crops under partial and fully controllable
environmental conditions. These Greenhouse Technologies
provides the suitable environmental conditions in which one
can grow any plant in any place at any time by controlling
suitable conditions in different parameters with minimum
labour an enables certain crops to be grown throughout the
year, It protects the plants from the adverse climatic
conditions such as wind, cold, precipitation, excessive
radiation, extreme temperature, insects and diseases.
Fig. 1. Greenhouse.
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By using modern technologies, we are designing an
automated greenhouse which prevents spoilage of crops due
to heavy and uneven rainfall. It consists of roof which can
close during heavy rainfall and open during the conditions
specified by the user. Roof can be controlled automatically
and manually. This system can monitor different physical
conditions like humidity, moisture and temperature suitable
for a growth of plant specified by the user.
Generating power and supply is a difficult task. India has
138Crore people. Supplying each one is not possible. In India
we are generating power through Non-renewable energy like
coal, petroleum and renewable energy like solar, wind, water
etc. Non-renewable energy cause lot of pollution and there
are already becoming less. So, generation of power through
renewable energy is very important and this is only way we
can control pollution and can generate energy. Renewable
energy is purest form of energy. In our project we are making
use of solar panels to generate power. In India solar energy is
the hoping way and efficient way of power generation. We
can generate more power from it. Cost of installation is more
but it maintenance cost is less and life time of solar panels are
also more.
Power generation technique is also proposed where power
is generated by solar energy. Using IOT technology user can
control or operating the overall process manually or
automatically from anywhere. Rainwater harvesting is also a
part of this project where collected rainwater can be used for
different agricultural purposes like irrigation and other
domestic purposes. Using IOT technology user can control or
operating the overall process manually or automatically from
anywhere.
Objectives of the proposed work includes,
• To protect the crops from heavy rain fall and
increase the yield.
• Generation of power using solar energy.
• Protect cops using Green house technique.
• To control operations regarding to closing and
opening of Roof and other operations manually
through IOT technology.
II. LITERATURE SURVEY
In some regions the water supply is insufficient, in that
regions there is necessity of preserving of the water for
agriculture. Conserving of rainwater helps in various
agricultural needs. This can be achieved using rainwater
harvesting and other advanced irrigation techniques helps in
better use of water. The main key to overcome is to establish
a various domain of concern such as land, farm, water tank
etc. There are some advancements irrigation engineering
techniques i.e., drip irrigation, site-specific variable rate
irrigation. By using these techniques, the farmer gets
benefitted by the reduced water consumption and reduced soil
evaporation loses. Initially irrigation project cost is high
because of this, taxes to the cultivator is more in the form of
levy. The proposed system requires more operating
knowledge for farmers. By using sprinkler irrigation method
crops can damaged because by changing the sprinkler system
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many times, also water should be clean while using the
sprinkler method. [1]
To monitor temperature, humidity and moisture in the soil
of agricultural land done by using IOT. Large number of
crops have been destroyed due to difference in weather
condition. Sensors collect the field information i.e., more
accurate and measure the various parameters like
temperature, moisture, humidity content in soil which helps
to reduces the problems in agricultural field. The RFID
technology is used to track and identify the object, or a crop
and it helps in communication by sending or receiving
information. The moisture contents in the soil is sensed by
using the moisture sensor and it will identify the amount of
water supply required to the crop and sends data to RFID and
enables the sensor to supply water which automatically turn
on the water source and turn off it when need is satisfied. The
process of encryption of data stored in RFID systems can be
quite expensive. Also, the cost of RFID tags is higher when
compared with other alternatives. [2]
The internal parameters of Greenhouse can be controlled
by
modifying temperature, humidity, concentration CO2,
micro/macro nutrients. We know that greenhouse is the
climatic model has nonlinearity, strong coupling, feedback-
feed forward linearization and decoupling. To overcome from
this PSO-PI is used. Firstly, nonlinear multiple inputs
multiple outputs MIM0 system. This transferred to SISO to
eliminate the temperature and humidity coupling. The major
disadvantage is when PI used alone it works poorly. [3]
Automatic control of temperature in green house is
done by using a technology called commercial embedded
system. The system is designed in such a way that it can
provide the appropriate air temperature in the region where
the crops are grown. The measured data is given to the
algorithm of cascaded PID and it is implemented in
embedded system. Manipulates actuators like heating,
cooling and fans with respect to the actuators. It is difficult to
distribute the fresh air to entire greenhouse. The main
disadvantages are lack of water, salinity, higher air
temperature and levels of humidity. [4]
The system to monitor agricultural land is developed
by using WSN. From the level of production and quality of
crops increases. The main advantage of this is no manual
interface. The factors on which production, Quality and
growing level depends are temperature, humidity and water
level. We can also call WSN as WSAN where physical and
environmental conditions like temperature, sound, pressure
and other are monitored using autonomous sensors which are
distributed. To monitor and crop production microcontroller
along with sensors are used. Depending upon the threshold
value motor is automatically controlled. Through IOT
monitored data is sent to cloud.so that farmers can get the
data easily. Disadvantages are low response of WSN, less
accuracy and cost of the technology is more. [5]
The parameters such as air humidity, temperature,
ground moisture and environment lightness can be controlled
under greenhouse environment. The data collection of these
parameters can be done by using hierarchical WSN
technology. The lower level consists sensor nodes, the middle
level consists of router nodes. This node transmit data from
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sensor nodes to a coordinator node. The coordinator node
(highest level), is used to communicate with a central base,
where all data received are analysed in each sensor node and
the water pump is controlled in response to the soil sensor
node. Sensor values are captured by microprocessor by
reading the analog port. These values are converted to a scale
from 0 to 9. A lower value represents dry soil, and a higher
value represents wet soil. If the value indicates that the soil is
dry, the coordinator node will send a message to the actuator
in which it turns on the water pump. The inconsistent use of
intermediate nodes can lead to complexity in routes and it
causes multiple route request messages in response to a single
route request message thus it can lead to heavy control
overhead. [6]
To monitor agricultural land conditions, to control
water irrigation and to take proper decisions, actions for that
is the main agenda of this paper. In this paper WSN is used.
WSN contains nodes of sensors where each node can detect
physical parameters like light, heat, pressure and other. WSN
has networking capability so that monitoring can be done
continuously. WSN are very popular and advantageous
method of data collection from that communication,
efficiency, reliability of the system is improved. WSN is very
powerful to collect the data and process the data. The cost
and energy consumption of this system is less. [7]
The greenhouse which can monitor real time
sensors, control the switches and the data is analysed
dynamically and efficiently by using Splunk platform.
Hardware of this have two parts sensors/actuators, severs.
Raspberry Pi and notebooks are in servers. The information
from sensors/actuators is given to web applications to
facilitate the users. So that it is easy to control actuators and
switches. Disadvantages are Splunk’s very expensive,
dashboards functional but not as effective as some other
monitoring tools. We need to spend lots of time to learn those
tools [8]
Management of greenhouse using IOT is done by
using sensors networks and technologies based on web. This
IOT contains technologies and processors which have
capacity of process large data. Hardware devices connections
are done by short distance wireless communications
technologies like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Zigbee. To manage
system parameters like temperature, humidity by using
remote and to view the greenhouse status, Zigbee is more
advantageous to make system more secure we need to adopt
higher technologies. The transmission rate of this system is
less. If we adopt Zigbee then cost will increase further. If we
want to make the system smaller, use less sensors, simplify
Zigbee networks, improve area of greenhouse will increase
system complexity. [9]
The economy water in underground is increased by
irrigation system through smart climate agriculture which
concentrate more on climatic changes which affects the
security offered. This simple system which can be built by
using less cost and that system can monitor soil moisture
using sensor and schedule plant irrigation using GSM. We
can control and monitor the system using Zigbee also
automates the irrigation through simple WSN. No self power
generation in this system and power is externally supplied by
the battery. [10]
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In tropical countries green houses are suffering from
controlling the changes in temperature and humidity. This
research paper finds a solution for controlling some
parameter under greenhouse condition in tropical countries
which consists of humidity and temperature. The different
inside and outside parameters of greenhouse is monitored in
the first step. In accordance with the monitored data system
of climate control is designed in the next step. The
greenhouse construction is done in such a way that it is
flexible for the air flow and ventilation process by measuring
the internal conditions inside the polyhouse by using the
system which can monitor climate and that system which is
outside the green house. The disadvantage regarding to this
research is damaged sensors and errors in data processing
system can cause problems in decisions which may be led to
excess use of water, fertilizers and other dissolution of
resources. [11]
Greenhouse with manual systems are monitored by
workers every day. Temperature and humidity monitoring
causes discomfort to the worker as visit the greenhouse every
time and controlling the parameters. The adoption of IOT in
greenhouse provide the solution for the existing practical
problems. These includes temperature, humidity and moisture
contents so these sensors configured to microcontroller to
analyses the parameters. The watering of crops is provided
with suitable type of irrigation. Once the threshold values of
sensors fall below the reference values, the microcontroller
decides and take suitable control actions via cloud platform.
Thus, enabling the sensors to meet the required threshold
values. The disadvantages of system are there is no adaptions
of IOT in greenhouse it fails to provide manual control, and
real time communication to the farmer. [12]
The growth and development of crops in greenhouse
are mainly influenced by the air temperature and climate
distribution. The outside and inside parameters like air
temperature, radiation of soil and humidity are measured. To
predict and simulate the generated energy annually at
different angles is done by Polyson program. The BIPV panel
is installed at a tilt angel of 30 degree which is placed just to
cover south roof part (BIPV panel parameter depends on
temperature). Installation of semi-transparent photovoltaic on
greenhouse depends on temperature parameter. When solar
radiation falls on the semi-transparent photovoltaic it
converts solar energy into electrical energy so that power is
generated. The disadvantage is power generation is less. [13]
The advancement and installation of IOT in
greenhouse leads to smart system automation and control of
internal parameter through scientific and efficient manner.
This automation of greenhouse adopted is done through
stages such as, layer of recognition, network construction,
management service and compressive applications. The layer
perceptual recognition layer is used to collect various
greenhouse environment factors which has direct contact with
the sensors installed at different places in greenhouse. The
hardware of the system includes greenhouse gateway devices
which mainly functions with the reliable communication with
cloud services, heating device control, equipment of
irrigation, ventilation and high compensation in green house.
The sensors nodes mainly function to collect sensed
information send to gateway devices. Information from nodes
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of sensors are transmitted through serial port of wireless TABLE I. DIFFERENT TYPES OF GREEN HOUSES AND THEIR SPECIFICATIONS
communication system. These highly intermediate nodes lead Disadvanta
Parameters
Type Advantages ges
to inconsistent data with multiple route access in response to controlled
the single route access which leads to heavy control Greater control of Less
Semi closed
overhead. [14] greenhouse
Heat air movement and cooling
The agricultural automation improves irrigation, humidity capacity
Initial
protects land and manage the health of crops. To improve Conventional Greenhouse Suitable for large
building
irrigation, to monitor things, a system to identify and classify green house gases scale growers
cost is high
affected plants autonomous rover is used. Autonomous rover High
performs in three levels. First level which is basic consist of Partly closed Green house Provide natural humidity
greenhouse gases growing of plants cause plant
motor, encoder, chassis and battery. Second level consist of diseases
main board and motor driver for controlling. For autonomous
navigation last level has IMU and GPS. Because of less Ideal closed Greenhouse Greater control of High cost
greenhouse gases diseases
humans to do physical work many people lost their jobs. [15]
Water management system using IOT is designed Opening maximizes
where Lora communication cannot connect to internet light and
ventilation, diseases
manually as well as automatically. From the sensors Open roof Tempreture,Hu
control, provides
High initial
embedded in the farm tunnels and other locations system greenhouse midity,Rain. cost
ideal growing
receives real time data. After that capacity check and water conditions,
scheduling will happens. To that data and time of watering protection from rain
scheduled, system gives notification to the user so that water
pump will be switched on to water the Usage of multiple B. Basic syatem flow
technologies leads to complexity and many other factors The propose system is designed by incorporating various
affects price. [16] hardware and software technologies in to it. The proposed
The automation of the greenhouse system consists of system uses ARM7 LPC2148 microcontroller as a main
execution of miniature system with a scale of 1:10. The control unit and all the controlling operations and executions
development board is equipped Arduino, humidity, have been carried out by this microcontroller. This system
temperature and light intensity measuring sensors. The uses multiple sensors to monitor and control various
microcontroller development board Arduino is configured parameters like temperature, moisture content in the soil,
with converters, circuit brakes to drive motors when humidity etc. The sensors include humidity sensor, IR sensor,
necessary. The data collected by the sensors such as moisture sensor and rain sensor/rain switch as shown in the
temperature, humidity sensors are interfaced with serial Fig. 2. This sensor provides various readings that will help
communication to the computer. Considering all the factors, monitor and control the greenhouse. Entire system works in
it is very difficult to analyze and decide if automation system both automatic mode as well as in manual mode. By using
is efficient or not. [17] IOT technology proposed system also enables the manual
The application of excessive pesticide to the plant monitoring of green house from anywhere. Power is
cause harmful impacts on the environment. The IOT feature generated as part of this system using solar panels placed on
of managing crops production in precision agriculture the roof top of the greenhouse.
optimizes the quality of crops by applying required nutrients.
The application of machine learning algorithm and graphical
user interface are deployed with sensing networks to gather
the required field data of some crops such as potatoes,
cabbage, tomatoes etc. The gathered data from sensing nodes
are fed to machine learning algorithm displaying both data
and warning message through a graphical user interface. [18]

III. METHODOLOGY
A. Basic idea
The basic idea beyond using IOT in agriculture is to
protect the crops during different seasons. As the many
techniques are applied in agricultural sector greenhouse
technique is also one of them. As of controlling and
monitoring of greenhouse using IOT and some other
technologies are implemented. By observing all the
technologies which are carried out on the greenhouse, so we
are designing a greenhouse system which can control the
parameters in the greenhouse. There are different structures Fig. 2. Block diagram of the proposed system
of greenhouse are present and their specifications is as
mentioned in the below TABLE I.

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necessary actions like controlling and actuating etc. The

sequence of operations which are carried out in automatic
mode as shown in the Fig. 4,Flow .
To enable the system working in the manual mode we are
using IOT technology like telegram bot. In this mode all the
controlling and monitoring of greenhouse is carried out
through internet. Communication is takes place between
farmer and greenhouse. By receiving the monitored values of
the parameters the farmer can control the greenhouse
anywhere and in anytime. The sequence of operations which
are carried out in manual mode as same as automatic mode but
instead the system automatically takes process to happen here
the farmer will control the whole operation which is far from
the land through instant messaging through telegram app
using internet services.

Fig. 3. Image of actual implemented model.

C. System algorithm
As the greenhouse structure is used to protect the crops.
The basic process of system is as follows:
• The system works in either automatic mode or manual
mode. It is set before the system starts the operation.
• Sensors that are present in the greenhouse measures
the parameters like moisture in the soli, temperature,
humidity and presence of rain etc. Then sends these
measured values to the microcontroller.
• Microcontroller checks for the threshold conditions. If
the measured value reaches this threshold value, then it
takes controlling operations. For example, if moisture
content in the soil is reaches the threshold value for the
crop then it automatically turns off the water pump or
if it is below threshold level it turns on pump.
• To protect the crops during rainy season the rain
sensor will sends the signal to microcontroller about
the presence of rain then the roof top of the greenhouse
will be actuated by the motor according to the
measured value of the sensor.
• Power generation is also part the system using solar
panels on the roof top of the greenhouse is store the
solar power. This solar power is boosted to the voltage
so that the system will work with this voltage or it will
used for other purposes.
• Rainwater is collected during rainy season. That water
is used for irrigation purposes.
This System works in two modes i.e, automatic mode,
manual mode. Fig. 3, Shows the image of actual implemented
model.

In the automatic mode of controlling and monitoring of the

system, the sensors which are in the agricultural land senses
the respective parameters like temperature, soil moisture
content, presence of rain and sensing any obstacle around the
greenhouse. Then any one of the parameters reaches its
threshold level it automatically sends signal to the
microcontroller. Accordingly, it reads the signal and take

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In this proposed system automatic mode and manual

mode of monitoring and controlling operations of the green
house are the primary activities and secondary activities
which is performed in the green house for cultivating the
plants is shown in TABLE II.

TABLE II. SECONDARY ACTIVITIES

Type Daily Weekly
Monthly

Fig. 4. Flow chart for automatic mode of control.
Irrigation  
Pets/disesses

Weeds  
ventilisation 
fertilization 
Tempreture and Humidity 
IV. RESULT AND DISCUSSION
We will build a small greenhouse which is the area of
67X49 in centimeter. Here we used polycarbonate sheets
made of rigid plastic that transmits light almost like glass
sheet. Here we are concentrated on growing one crop in the
greenhouse which is green chilly named as Serrano pepper
grouped under commercial crop. It requires a 24ºC-27ºC
temperature. So that temperature is maintained by setting this
value. Crop needs well drained sandy loam soil with rich
organic content. It requires a moisture in the soil. In order to
keeps the soil in moisture condition here it is set to 100. If the
moisture content goes beyond 100 then it will automatically
shut down the water pump through relay if it is working in
automatic mode otherwise send the notification to the farmer
shutdown the water pump.
Our main objective is to protect and growing the crops
during rainy season as many farmers will not get high yield
during these days due to heavy rainfall. Rain sensor will
notify the presence of rain comes. If it is heavy rain, then the
roof top of the greenhouse will automatically be closed and
protect the crops and completely shutdowns the irrigation
process. That rainwater is collected, and it is used for other
purposes also.

When the power is switched on the system gets initialized

and it is the first step. The message will be displayed on the
LCD screen. Fig. 5, shows the initialization of the system

Fig. 5. Flow chart for manual mode of control. Fig. 5. System initialization.

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As soon as the system is initialized, it asks for the user to
select either auto mode or manual mode. The user will be
provided by two switches may select the option depending on
his requirement. Fig. 6. shows the mode selection.
when its not raining and figure. 11. Shows the closing of
panels when there is a rain to protect the crop from the rain.
And corresponding message is displayed on the screen
regarding to opening and closing of the panels and also
corresponding message is also sent to the farmer in manual
mode through telegram app.

Fig. 6. Mode selection.

Moisture sensor measures the moisture level in the soil.If
the moisture level is normal then that indicates there is
sufficent amount of water is present in the soil, if the
moisture level is below the normal value it indicates that the
land is dry, in that case the user need to turn on the motor to Fig. 10. Opening of panels.
water the field. Fig. 7. shows the measuring of moisture level
in the soil.

Fig. 7.moisture measurement

Humidity sensor measures the moisture content in

the air and display the value of the humidity and it also
measures the temperature of the environment and display the
value in LCD screen. Fig. 8.and Fig .9. shows the
measurement of humidity and temperature..
Fig. 8. measurement of humidity.
Fig. 11. closing of panels.
In manual mode of controlling the green house the farmer
can monitor and control the operations of the green hose
through telegram app. All the messages regarding to moisture
content in the soil, opening and closing of panels sent to the
farmer. Farmer also control the on and off the water pump by
giving the commands as *PUMP ON# for on the water pump
and *PUMP OFF# for off the water pump according
to the received messages regarding to the moisture content in
the soil. Fig. 11.shows the monitoring and controlling of the
green house through telegram app.

Fig. 9. measurement of temperature.

If the rain sensor detects rain then the panels will get close
to protect the crops from rain otherwise the panels will
remain open. Fig. 10. shows the opening of the roof panels

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30
25
Temperature
20
Time
15
Voltage
10
5
0

Fig. 13. Analysis of day 1 solar power generation.

35
30
25
Temperature
20
Time
15
Voltage
10
Fig. 12. Telegram app messaging screen.
5

We compared yield from the crop that are grown inside 0

the greenhouse and with normally grown crop. The yield and
the along with the power generated from solar panels if it is Fig. 14. Analysis of day 2 solar power generation.
built in acre, hectare are shown in Table-II

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30
Table-III: Comparison of the yield and generated power 25
Area Yield by Temperature
Yield by old 20
Crop Power generated proposed
method Time
method 15
67X49 cm Serrano Voltage
5 -6W 50g 75g 10
pepper
Per half 5
Serrano
acre 150 to 250W 5-6kg 7-8kg
pepper 0
Per acre Serrano
1Kw 150kg 198kg
pepper Fig. 15. Analysis of day 3 solar power generation.
Per hectare Serrano
1MW 375kg 429kg
(2.5) pepper
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The solar panels which are placed on the roof top of the green 30
house results in significant generation of power. Voltage 25
generated by these solar panels is stored in the battery and is Temperature
20
used to control the operations in green house. The voltage Time
generated during summer season and variations in voltage 15
Voltage
generation on the different times in a day is observed. 10
According to the collected readings graph is plotted for
5
voltage generated during time and temperature. In Fig. 4-
Fig.8 shows the graphs for generation of voltage with respect 0
to time and temperature up to 5 days is plotted.
Fig. 16. Analysis of day 4 solar power generation.

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